Integrated Transport Planning

Pull & Push - Good & Bad: On the Effectiveness and Perception of Transport Policy and Planning Measures Between Freedom and Force

Duration:
2022 - 2025

Project management:
Prof. Dr. Oliver Schwedes

Research associate:
Fabian Drews, M. A.

Project partners:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carsten Gertz and Dr. Martina Hekler (Institute for Transport Planning and Logistics at Hamburg University of Technology)

Financing:
German Research Foundation

The research project “Pull & Push – Gut & Böse” aims to precisely assess the effectiveness of the various transport policy and planning instruments in the area of tension between pull and push measures and identify the most effective combinations. This starts with an understanding of the need to proactively shape change in transport. It also important to know more about the effectiveness of pull and push measures as well as their acceptance by the population.

The project includes assessing the various impact levels of pull and push measures. It also examines how different social actors (planners, politicians, civil society) perceive pull and push measures. The aim of the project is to develop theoretical-conceptual approaches with a scientific argumentation for effective pull and push strategies. On the basis of this work, planning recommendations and concrete measures for action are defined. This approach is intended to contribute to the further transformation of passive adaptation planning, which is still dominant in the policy field of transport, into an integrated transport planning which is proactively shaped. Research is undertaken in close collaboration with the Institute for Transport Planning and Logistics at Hamburg University of Technology.